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09-04-2005, 08:01 AM
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#16 | | He who does not skim
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09-04-2005, 08:06 AM
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#17 | | Your ad here. ;)
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Country:  | It's so true, NS. I have been building my own PCs for about 15 years, and I still do things like that when I get in a hurry.
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09-04-2005, 08:08 AM
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#18 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | I've done it myself. Ah yes, there's nothing like cursing and pulling your hair out for ten minutes only to discover you forgot to plug the damn thing in. | |
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09-04-2005, 08:13 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Know the feeling, you check everything and then you find you have not plugged it in correctly and you feel like such an idiot!
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09-05-2005, 12:51 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Pisis
maybe you can help me then, if you're "the whizz" ---. i've just bought a cd burner recently (i've never had anyone) and when i installed it, the xp's cannot recognize it via "find new hardware" function... how can i get it running?
| when you checkd the cables. you have to make shure the motherboard does see the burner 
so on startup, go into the BIOS as see if it recognizes all the IDE drives 
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09-05-2005, 11:54 AM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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Country: | I have an ancient machine;
2.6 Ghz AMD Athlon processor
128 Mb 5700FX Geforce graphics
512 Mb DDR
60 GB Harddrive (Can't remember the speed)
CD/CD-RW/DVD combo - which is starting to fail me these days
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